World History

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1 China 10x

2 Poland 9x

3 France 9x

4 Egypt 9x

5 Japan 8x

6 Hungary 8x

7 India 7x

8 Christopher Columbus 7x

9 Spain 6x

10 Russia 6x

11 Peter the Great 6x

12 Canada 6x

13 Brazil 6x

14 Alexander the Great 6x

15 South Africa 5x

16 Mexico 5x

17 Italy 5x

18 Germany 5x

19 Denmark 5x

20 Cuba 5x

21 the Philippines 4x

22 Sweden 4x

23 Portugal 4x

24 Napoleon 4x

25 Mao Tse-tung 4x

26 Louis XIV 4x

27 Haiti 4x

28 Frederick the Great 4x

29 Finland 4x

30 Charlemagne 4x

31 Catherine the Great 4x

32 Cambodia 4x

33 Bismarck 4x

34 Australia 4x

35 the Netherlands 4x

36 The Boer War 4x

37 the Suez Canal 4x

38 Yugoslavia 3x

39 U Thant 3x

40 the Ottoman Empire 3x

41 the Crusades 3x

42 Scotland 3x

43 Saudi Arabia 3x

44 Saladin 3x

45 Rome 3x

46 Prussia 3x

47 Nasser 3x

48 Mexico City 3x

49 Martin Luther 3x

Sample Clues

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China

Ruling from 1764 to 1795, Stanislaus II was the last king of this country

Poland

Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Francois Mitterrand

France

The first recorded labor strike went down in this empire's New Kingdom around 1160 B.C.; the workers wanted their bread & beer

Egypt

Ozoni

Japan

Sub-Areas

Other 723

China (10) Japan (8) France (8) Poland (8) India (7) Canada (6) Russia (6) Brazil (6) Peter the Great (5) Spain (5)

Ancient 120

Egypt (9) Alexander the Great (6) Augustus Caesar (3) Hannibal (3) Athens (3) Rome (3) Greece (2) the Lighthouse at Alexandria (2) Nebuchadnezzar (2) Maria Theresa (2)

Colonial / Exploration 43

Christopher Columbus (7) Puerto Rico (2) Cecil Rhodes (2) Portugal (2) the Belgian Congo (Zaire) (1) Pancho Villa (1) Hong Kong (1) Haiti (1) Raleigh (1) the Indies (1)

Medieval 29

the Crusades (4) Charlemagne (3) Saladin (2) Henry VII (2) The Magna Carta (2) serfs (1) the Children's Crusade (1) King John (1) feudalism (1) a convent (1)

World War I 29

World War I (2) Germany (2) World War II (2) 1919 (1) Gallipoli (1) tanks (1) La Belle Époque (1) Bismarck (1) the Triple Entente (1) the Ottoman Empire (1)

Cold War 24

Khrushchev (2) Hungary (2) India & Pakistan (1) Lithuania (1) Dien Bien Phu (1) Berlin (1) Vietnam (1) Finland (1) U Thant (1) the Soviet Union (Russia) (1)

Revolutionary Era 18

Veracruz (1) James Cook (1) the Cultural Revolution (1) Simón Bolívar (1) Robespierre (1) William of Orange (1) France (1) Lafayette (1) Hungary (1) Toussaint Louverture (1)

World War II 16

Erwin Rommel (2) Adolf Hitler (2) the National Socialist Party (1) Chamberlain (1) Casablanca (1) The Boer War (1) Nuremberg (1) Chiang Kai-shek (1) Mata Hari (1) Winston Churchill (1)

Civil War 13

the Spanish Civil War (2) Spain (1) Generalissimo Franco (1) the serfs (1) the Tamil Tigers (1) Mexico (1) Benito Mussolini (1) the Helvetic Confederation of Switzerland (1) Hanseatic League (1) Charles I (1)

Modern (post-1990) 2

the Tutsi (1) Kuwait (1)